The Man in the Lighthouse 2007

The Man in the Lighthouse 2007

The Man in the Lighthouse 2007
Ang lalake sa parola (original title)
1h 48min | Drama , Romance | 3 September 2007 (Philippines)

Storyline:

Mateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher Suzette. The small town they are in is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex, whilst he is on holiday from Manila. A local a gay man, who pays local teenage boys for sex, talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo’s relationship with Jerome leads to self reevaluation.

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Cola de Mono 2018

Cola de Mono 2018

Cola de Mono 2018
1h 42min | Thriller | 12 October 2018 (Chile)

Storyline:

It’s Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his extended family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways that passion and desire control our lives – from our pop-culture tastes to our sexual fantasies.

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Super 8 and a half 1993

Super 8 and a half 1993
Unrated | 1h 39min | Drama | 28 April 1995 (USA)

Storyline:

A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project.

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Thirty Years of Adonis 2017

Thirty Years of Adonis 2017

Thirty Years of Adonis 2017

Thirty Years of Adonis 2017
1h 37min | Drama, Erotic | 27 November 2017 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Ke is a young man who is a Beijing Opera actor. He decides to pursue acting, and soon becomes a commercial sex worker for men.

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I Am Guilty 2005

I Am Guilty 2005

I Am Guilty 2005
Falscher Bekenner (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Thriller | 6 April 2006 (Germany)

Storyline:

Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends an anonymous letter to a local Munich newspaper, claiming responsibility for a fatal road accident. He fitfully pursues notoriety as he goes through life nearly without affect. What will it take to get Armin to smile?

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Love Actually Sucks 2012

Love Actually Sucks 2012

Love Actually Sucks 2012
Ai Hen Lan (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 23min | Drama | 3 March 2012 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Love Actually… Sucks! was inspired by real-life events, and opens with a dramatic wedding feast. It tells a variety of stories about love that has gone wrong: a brother and sister in an illicit relationship, a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who is besotted with his senior student, and a lesbian couple, one of whom has role-play paranoia, and is caught in a complex love triangle. The film celebrates the belief that life is love.

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Bedways 2010

Bedways 2010

Bedways 2010
Unrated | 1h 16min | Drama, Romance | 21 June 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous melange. Berlin is the shelter, love is impossible, flesh is the law.

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